Chapter 442 Auction trap (19)
"Do you want to leave? As long as you leave, we won't make it hard on you." The leader of these attackers looked at the driver and pulled out a dagger when he said this.
The driver just looked right at the leader and said, "Are you saying that you'll really let me go if I leave?"
The leader said with a smile, "I am a man of my word. You aren't involved in this matter, so there's no reason for you to suffer. As long as you are willing to leave, we don't do a single thing to you."
The driver slowly came down from the carriage when he heard this.
The way that he was acting, it was as if he really was moved by what the leader of the attackers had said.
Once he was off the carriage, the driver raised his hands to show that he didn't want any trouble. The attackers just watched and waited to see what he would do next.
The driver slowly moved forward towards the attackers, but still they didn't do a thing.
With his hands up, he said, "I'll walk out of here and you won't attack me. Can you promise me that?"
The leader just gave a nod before moving to the side, clearing a path for the driver to go through. Then he said with the same smile on his face, "As long as you're willing to leave, then we won't do anything to you. We only have business with the one in the carriage."
Though there was a path prepared for him, the driver moved slowly towards it.
It was as if he still didn't trust the attackers even though they had done all that they could to show that they really meant no harm to him.
The distance between the two sides decreased until the driver was only a few steps away from the attackers.
It was at this time that the driver suddenly slowed down even more.
The leader of the attackers narrowed his eyes to look at the driver as he said, "Is there a problem?"
The driver gave a nod before saying, "How do I know that you won't track me down after this? You've seen my face and I've seen yours, so I could be considered a witness. You would want to silence all witnesses, don't you?"
The eyes of the leader of the attack relaxed when he heard this.
He once again revealed a smile as he said, "I can give you my word, for whatever that is worth. I can promise you that we won't do anything to you provided that you leave right away and don't talk to anyone unless they look for you."
Then after a pause, as if he realized that there was something wrong with what he said, he added, "That is as long as you aren't in danger, you won't say anything."
The driver looked at the leader of the attackers with one brow raised, almost as if he was doubting him.
But the leader of the attackers just looked back at him with the same smile on his face.
Finally, the driver said, "Alright, that's very reasonable. I'll be going now."
After he said this, he started moving forward once again.
The attackers didn't make a move as he came right in front of them.
But once he was there, the driver stopped once again to look at the leader of the attackers.
The leader narrowed his eyes once again and there was a trace of impatience that appeared in his eyes as he asked, "What's wrong now?"
The driver calmly said, "Well, it's like this…I still haven't been paid by the count yet, so I was wondering…"
His voice trailed off, but it was very clear what he was implying.
The leader knitted his brows as he said, "Is money really worth more than your life?"
The driver started to cry as he said, "Please sir, I have an elderly mother and many young children that I have to take care of. If I don't get this money, I don't know how we'll make it to the end of the month."
The leader knitted his brows even more and it was clear that he was losing his patience.
He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a dagger to point at the driver before saying, "If you don't leave now, you won't have a life to leave with."
The driver suddenly leaned forward, almost as if he was about to grab the leader's legs…but then he suddenly stabbed his hand out towards the leader's face.
The leader wasn't caught off guard at all as he raised his hand with the dagger in it to meet this hand stabbing at him.
There was the sound of metal clanging against each other as two daggers clashed.
The leader looked at the driver and said with a smile, "It seems like there really are no decent people left in the world. You offer someone a chance to live and not only do they not take it, they even try to stab you in the back."
The driver looked up with a cold smile as he replied, "Stab you in the back? Can you really say that you wouldn't have stabbed me in the back if I really left?"
The leader acted like he was offended as he said, "I am a man of honour, of course I would never do anything like that."
The driver just gave a scoff before saying, "Sure you are."
The leader didn't mind this as he casually said, "But don't you see the problem here?"
With a wave of his hand, his men started moving forward to surround the driver. Once the driver was surrounded, he said, "I think that you might be at a disadvantage here."
However, the driver didn't seem worried at all even though he had been surrounded.
He just looked up with a smile before saying, "Is that so? I think that things might not go the way that you want them to."
Then all of sudden, he shouted, "Now!"
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